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<td class="v">1:1</td>
<td>The burden which Habakkuk the prophet did see.</td>
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<td class="v">1:2</td>
<td>O LORD, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear! even cry out unto thee of violence, and thou wilt not save!</td>
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<td class="v">1:3</td>
<td>Why dost thou shew me iniquity, and cause me to behold grievance? for spoiling and violence are before me: and there are that raise up strife and contention.</td>
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<td class="v">1:4</td>
<td>Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment doth never go forth: for the wicked doth compass about the righteous; therefore wrong judgment proceedeth.</td>
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<td class="v">1:5</td>
<td>Behold ye among the heathen, and regard, and wonder marvellously: for I will work a work in your days, which ye will not believe, though it be told you.</td>
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<td class="v">1:6</td>
<td>For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty nation, which shall march through the breadth of the land, to possess the dwellingplaces that are not theirs.</td>
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<td class="v">1:7</td>
<td>They are terrible and dreadful: their judgment and their dignity shall proceed of themselves.</td>
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<td class="v">1:8</td>
<td>Their horses also are swifter than the leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves: and their horsemen shall spread themselves, and their horsemen shall come from far; they shall fly as the eagle that hasteth to eat.</td>
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<td class="v">1:9</td>
<td>They shall come all for violence: their faces shall sup up as the east wind, and they shall gather the captivity as the sand.</td>
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<td class="v">1:10</td>
<td>And they shall scoff at the kings, and the princes shall be a scorn unto them: they shall deride every strong hold; for they shall heap dust, and take it.</td>
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<td class="v">1:11</td>
<td>Then shall his mind change, and he shall pass over, and offend, imputing this his power unto his god.</td>
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<td class="v">1:12</td>
<td>Art thou not from everlasting, O LORD my God, mine Holy One? we shall not die. O LORD, thou hast ordained them for judgment; and, O mighty God, thou hast established them for correction.</td>
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<td class="v">1:13</td>
<td>Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity: wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously, and holdest thy tongue when the wicked devoureth the man that is more righteous than he?</td>
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<td class="v">1:14</td>
<td>And makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping things, that have no ruler over them?</td>
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<td class="v">1:15</td>
<td>They take up all of them with the angle, they catch them in their net, and gather them in their drag: therefore they rejoice and are glad.</td>
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<td class="v">1:16</td>
<td>Therefore they sacrifice unto their net, and burn incense unto their drag; because by them their portion is fat, and their meat plenteous.</td>
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<td class="v">1:17</td>
<td>Shall they therefore empty their net, and not spare continually to slay the nations?</td>
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